It's amusing.

Do you suppose we shall see her when we go behind, March ?" He still professed a desire to do so when the curtain fell, and they hurried to the rear door of the theatre.

It was slightly ajar, and they pulled it wide open, with the eagerness of their age and nation, and began to mount the stairs leading up from it between rows of painted dancing-girls, who had come out for a breath of air, and who pressed themselves against the walls to make room for the intruders.

With their rouged faces, and the stare of their glassy eyes intensified by the coloring of their brows and lashes, they were like painted statues, as they stood there with their crimsoned lips parted in astonished smiles.
"This is rather weird," said March, faltering at the sight.

"I wonder if we might ask these young ladies where to go ?" General Triscoe made no answer, and was apparently no more prepared than himself to accost the files of danseuses, when they were themselves accosted by an angry voice from the head of the stairs with a demand for their business.